Chantilly lace
Chantilly is a lace with continuous threads, ie that is been made from top to bottom. Larger pieces, like before the pelerines, triangular scarves are made in strips, which are put together with the point to the raccroc
The Chantilly originates from Chantilly, France. She was and still is mostly made of black silk , although there are also Chantilly laces of white silk. Due to the black dye, only a few really old Chantilly lace are preserved.
The motifs in the Chantilly are made in half stitch surrounded by a gimp bundle. This consists of a thicker thread and the thin threads, which are migrating between the ground or motives. The ground between the motifs is generally a tulle ground, sometimes a Parisian ground or a derivative thereof.
Outside Chantilly, the Chantilly lace was also made in other parts of France such as Calvados, Bayeux, Caen and Le Puy. Outside of France the lace was made in Grammont, Belgium and England (Amersham Black).
Nowadays there is also colored Chantilly. This was developed around 1897 in Courseulles-sur-Mer by Felix Aubert and Georges Robert.
